scholarly journals Applying Partial Power-Gating to Direction-Sliced Network-on-Chip

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Wang ◽  
Xiantuo Tang ◽  
Zuocheng Xing
Keyword(s):  
Power Efficiency ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Network On Chip ◽  
Leakage Power ◽  
Power Gating ◽  
Load Range ◽  
Communication Architectures ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Many Core

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is one of critical communication architectures for future many-core systems. As technology is continually scaling down, on-chip network meets the increasing leakage power crisis. As a leakage power mitigation technique, power-gating can be utilized in on-chip network to solve the crisis. However, the network performance is severely affected by the disconnection in the conventional power-gated NoC. In this paper, we propose a novel partial power-gating approach to improve the performance in the power-gated NoC. The approach mainly involves a direction-slicing scheme, an improved routing algorithm, and a deadlock recovery mechanism. In the synthetic traffic simulation, the proposed design shows favorable power-efficiency at low-load range and achieves better performance than the conventional power-gated one. For the application trace simulation, the design in the mesh/torus network consumes 15.2%/18.9% more power on average, whereas it can averagely obtain 45.0%/28.7% performance improvement compared with the conventional power-gated design. On balance, the proposed design with partial power-gating has a better tradeoff between performance and power-efficiency.

scholarly journals Novel Metric for Load Balance and Congestion Reducing in Network on-Chip

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-321
Author(s):  
Abdelkader Aroui ◽  
Abou Elhassan Benyamina ◽  
Pierre Boulet ◽  
Kamel Benhaoua ◽  
Amit Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Resource Utilization ◽  
Network Performance ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Network On Chip ◽  
Mesh Network ◽  
Distributed Embedded Systems ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
Improvement Rate ◽  
On Chip

The Network-on-Chip (NoC) is an alternative pattern that is considered as an emerging technology for distributed embedded systems. The traditional use of multi-cores in computing increase the calculation performance; but affect the network communication causing congestion on nodes which therefore decrease the global performance of the NoC. To alleviate this problematic phenomenon, several strategies were implemented, to reduce or prevent the occurrence of congestion, such as network status metrics, new routing algorithm, packets injection control, and switching strategies. In this paper, we carried out a study on congestion in a 2D mesh network, through various detailed simulations. Our focus was on the most used congestion metrics in NoC. According to our experiments and performed simulations under different traffic scenarios, we found that these metrics are less representative, less significant and yet they do not give a true overview of reading within the NoC nodes at a given cycle. Our study shows that the use of other complementary information regarding the state of nodes and network traffic flow in the design of a novel metric, can really improve the results. In this paper, we put forward a novel metric that takes into account the overall operating state of a router in the design of adaptive XY routing algorithm, aiming to improve routing decisions and network performance. We compare the throughput, latency, resource utilization, and congestion occurrence of proposed metric to three published metrics on two specific traffic patterns in a varied packets injection rate. Our results indicate that our novel metric-based adaptive XY routing has overcome congestion and significantly improve resource utilization through load balancing; achieving an average improvement rate up to 40  compared to adaptive XY routing based on the previous congestion metrics.

scholarly journals Load-balanced routing algorithm for Network-on-Chip employing fair arbiter

2021 ◽  
Vol 1871 (1) ◽  
pp. 012117
Author(s):  
Lu Liu ◽  
Yanfei Yang ◽  
Qianqian Lei ◽  
Huhu Wang ◽  
Song Lixun
Keyword(s):  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Network On Chip ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Load Balanced

Probabilistic Analysis of Power-Gating in Network-on-Chip Routers

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasim Nasirian ◽  
Reza Soosahabi ◽  
Magdy A. Bayoumi
Keyword(s):  
Probabilistic Analysis ◽  
Network On Chip ◽  
Power Gating ◽  
On Chip

FoToNoC: A Folded Torus-Like Network-on-Chip Based Many-Core Systems-on-Chip in the Dark Silicon Era

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1905-1918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Yang ◽  
Weichen Liu ◽  
Weiwen Jiang ◽  
Mengquan Li ◽  
Peng Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Network On Chip ◽  
Dark Silicon ◽  
Systems On Chip ◽  
On Chip ◽  
Many Core

A Novel Adaptive Routing Algorithm for Network-On-Chip

2011 ◽  
Vol 474-476 ◽  
pp. 413-416
Author(s):  
Jia Jia ◽  
Duan Zhou ◽  
Jian Xian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Adaptive Routing ◽  
Network On Chip ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Average Latency ◽  
On Chip

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive routing algorithm to solve the communication congestion problem for Network-on-Chip (NoC). The strategy competing for output ports in both X and Y directions is employed to utilize the output ports of the router sufficiently, and to reduce the transmission latency and improve the throughput. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is very effective in relieving the communication congestion, and a reduction in average latency by 45.7% and an improvement in throughput by 44.4% are achieved compared with the deterministic XY routing algorithm and the simple XY adaptive routing algorithm.

Design of Router Supporting Multiply Routing Algorithm for NoC

2014 ◽  
Vol 981 ◽  
pp. 431-434
Author(s):  
Zhan Peng Jiang ◽  
Rui Xu ◽  
Chang Chun Dong ◽  
Lin Hai Cui
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Routing Algorithm ◽  
Network On Chip ◽  
System On Chip ◽  
Low Latency ◽  
Deterministic Routing ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Design Challenge ◽  
On Chip

Network on Chip(NoC)，a new proposed solution to solve global communication problem in complex System on Chip (SoC) design，has absorbed more and more researchers to do research in this area. Due to some distinct characteristics, NoC is different from both traditional off-chip network and traditional on-chip bus，and is facing with the huge design challenge. NoC router design is one of the most important issues in NoC system. The paper present a high-performance, low-latency two-stage pipelined router architecture suitable for NoC designs and providing a solution to irregular 2Dmesh topology for NoC. The key features of the proposed Mix Router are its suitability for 2Dmesh NoC topology and its capability of suorting both full-adaptive routing and deterministic routing algorithm.

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